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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Knowing OS is useful for download links.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

having 3 different ones solves that issue though? the user can figure out whic OS they're running pretty well imo.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can tell you've never had to do T1 tech support before.

It's kind of staggering just how illiterate users can be.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt the fix is to make them need less literacy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

When you are competing for customers not providing the illiterate morons of the world a simple UI leads to them going to your competitor which does.

And unfortunately those illiterate morons outnumber every one else by a significant chunk.

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